This practically oriented text was prepared by a well-known specialist in the field of industrial deafness, who designed his book to bring physicians and other students of hearing loss a useful guide to the intricasies of otologic examination, diagnosis, and hearing assessment. The 27 chapters discuss areas ranging from the classification of hearing losses with tuning forks, the inter-pretation of a pure-tone audiogram, various causes of conductive hearing and sensory-neural hearing losses, mixed central and functional hearing impairment, tinnitus and vertigo, techniques for hearing tests, and hearing loss in children. Since the book was not intended as a scholarly work on hearing, its simplicity and straightforward writing are both refreshing and appropriate; however, there are many inaccuracies or anachronisms included probably more because of expedience than ignorance on the part of this experienced author.

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